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Important Catholic Quotes for Today!

 

Saint Paul Apostle and Martyr	“Stand fast... hold the Traditions.” (2 Thessalonians 2:14) “But though We, or an Angel from Heaven, Preach a Gospel to you besides that which We have preached to you, let him be anathema.” (Galatians 1:8) “Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the Truth?” (Galatians 4:16)
Pope St. Gregory I	“If people are scandalized at the Truth, it is better to allow the birth of scandal, than to abandon the Truth.” (Infallible Roman Catholic Pope Saint Gregory I, the Great, [Friday, September 3, 590 - Monday, March 12, 604], Homily on Ezechiel, 7; cited by Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., Summa Theologica, Part II-II, Question 43, Article 7.)
St. Thomas Aquinas	“Doxnotxheedxbyxwhomxa thing is said, butxrather whatxis said.”   (Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., [b. 1225 A.D. in Rocca Secca, Naples, Italy - d. Wednesday, March 7, 1274 A.D., in Fossa Nuova, Italy], Doctor of the Church, Letter to Brother John.)
Patriarch Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Egypt	“The Heretics may possess the buildings of the Church, but you possess the Faith of the Church... It is a fact that they have the premises - but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the True Faith.  You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you.  Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith? The True Faith, obviously.  Who has lost and who has won in this struggle - the one who keeps the premises, or the one who keeps the Faith?....  Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the True Church of Jesus Christ.” (Patriarch Saint Athanasius [b. Alexandria, Egypt 296 A.D. - d. Alexandria, Egypt on Wednesday, May 2, 373A.D.], Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, Father of Orthodoxy in the Catholic Church, “Coll. Selecta SS. Eccl. Patrum.,” Caillu and Guillou, Volume 32, pp 411-412; emphasis added.)
Infallible Roman Catholic Pope Pius VI	“In order to expose such snares, something which becomes necessary with a certain frequency in every Century, no other method is required than the following: Whenever it becomes necessary to expose statements which disguise some suspected error or danger under the veil of ambiguity, one must denounce the perverse meaning under which the error opposed to Catholic Truth is camouflaged.”  (Infallible Roman Catholic Pope Pius VI, Giovanni Angelo Braschi [Wednesday, February 15, 1775 - Thursday, August 29, 1799], using his Infallible Ordinary Magisterium, Promulgated his Infallible Encyclical “Auctorem Fidei,” Thursday, August 28, 1794, ¶ 6; emphasis added).
Infallible Roman Catholic Pope Saint Pius X	“These latter days have witnessed a notable increase in the number of the enemies of the Cross of Christ, who, by arts entirely new and full of deceit, are striving to destroy the vital energy of the Church, and, as far as in them lies, utterly to subvert the very Kingdom of Christ. Wherefore, We may no longer keep silence, lest We should seem to fail in Our most Sacred Duty, and lest the kindness that, in the hope of wiser counsels, We have hitherto shown them, should be set down to lack of diligence in the discharge of Our Office.”  (Infallible Roman Catholic Pope Saint Pius X, Giuseppe Sarto [Tuesday, August 4, 1903 - Thursday, August 20, 1914], Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, On the Doctrine of the Modernists, Sunday, September 8, 1907.)
Father Saint Vincent of Lerins	“In an Epistle sent at the time to Africa, he [Infallible Roman Catholic Pope Saint Stephen I [Friday, May 12, 254 - Sunday, August 2, 257] laid down this RULE:  Let there be no innovation - nothing but what has been handed down. For that holy and prudent man well knew that true piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our Fathers the same are to be faithfully consigned to posterity. It is our duty to follow Religion, not to make Religion follow us. The proper characteristic of Christians is not to impose their own beliefs or observances upon posterity, but to preserve and keep what we have received from those who went before us. What then was the issue of the whole matter? What but the usual and customary one?  Antiquity was retained, novelty [i.e. change] was rejected”  (Father Saint Vincent of Lerins, [b. Toul, France, c. 400 A.D. - d. Island of Lerins, c. 450 A.D.], A Commonitory [an aid to memory] for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies, Chapter VI, ¶ 16; emphasis added).
Saint Thomas Aquinas	“The Apostles and their successors are God’s vicars in governing the Church which is built on Faith and the Sacraments of Faith.  Wherefore, just as they may not institute another church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments...”  (Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., Summa Theologica, Part III, Question 64, Article 2, Reply to Objection 3; emphasis added).
Patriarch Saint Athanasius	“Let us note that the very Tradition, teaching, and Faith of the Catholic Church from the beginning, which the Lord gave, was preached by the Apostles, and was preserved by the Fathers. On this was the Church founded; and if anyone departs from this, he neither is, nor any longer ought to be called, a Christian.” (Patriarch Saint Athanasius [b. Alexandria, Egypt 296 A.D. - d. Alexandria, Egypt on Wednesday, May 2, 373A.D.], Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, Father of Orthodoxy in the Catholic Church, Letter to Serapion of Thmuis, 359 A.D.).
Bishop Saint Isidore of Seville, Spain	“Therefore, heresy is so-called from the Greek word meaning choice, by which each chooses according to his own will what he pleases to teach or believe.  But we are not permitted to believe whatever we choose, nor to choose whatever someone else has believed.  We have the Apostles of God as authorities, who did not themselves of their own will choose what they would believe, but faithfully transmitted to the nations the teaching received from Christ.  So, even if ‘an Angel from Heaven’ should preach otherwise, he shall be called anathemaX(Saint Paul, Epistle to the Galatians 1:8.).”  (Bishop Saint Isidore of Seville, Spain, [b. Cartagena, Spain 560 A.D. - d. Seville, Spain, 636 A.D.], Doctor of the Catholic Church, Etymologies, 8, 3; emphasis added.)
Bishop Saint Ivo	Priests & Bishops: “Do not be one of those timourous physicians who like their tranquility more than the saving of the sick...  Even though Salome should dance before Herod, should ask for John's head and should obtain it from the detestable King, John's duty is to cry out: NON LICET! [It is not permitted!].”  (Bishop Saint Ivo of Chartres, a.k.a. Yves, I’ve, Yvo  [b. Beauvais, France or Auteuil, France, c. 1040 A.D. - d. Chartres, France, Tuesday, May 30, 1116 A.D.], Bishop of Chartres [1090 A.D. - Tuesday, May 30, 1116 A.D.], Letter # 24, To Bishop Hugh of Lyons, October, 1094 A.D.)
St. Vincent of Lerins	Magnopere curandum est ut id teneamus quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus creditum est. “Care must especially be had that that [Faith] be held, which was believed everywhere, always, and by all.” (Father Saint Vincent of Lerins, A Commonitory [an aid to memory] for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies, Chapter 3; emphasis added.)